Primate Sexuality

Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

Alan F. Dixson

Builds on the reputation of the first edition, providing a fully revised and comprehensive successor

Illustrated throughout with hundreds of original drawings and figures, including a new 4 page colour plate section

Primate Sexuality

Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

Second Edition

Alan F. Dixson

Description

Primate Sexuality provides an authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of current research on the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates - prosimians, monkeys, apes, and human beings. This new edition has been fully updated and greatly expanded throughout to incorporate a decade of new research findings. It maintains the depth and scientific rigour of the first edition, and includes a new chapter on human sexuality, written from a comparative perspective. It contains 2600 references, almost 400 figures and photographs, and 73 tables.

Primate Sexuality

Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

Second Edition

Alan F. Dixson

Author Information

Alan F. Dixson, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Alan Dixson was educated in England at the University of Nottingham, where he obtained a BSc in Zoology (1970) and at the University of Birmingham Medical School, where he was awarded a PhD (1973) and a DSc in Biological Sciences (1993). His research has involved comparative studies of reproductive biology and the evolution of sexuality in primates and in other mammals. He has held posts at the Zoological Society of London (1976-1983), Medical Research Council UK (1983-1999), International Medical Research Centre in Gabon (1989-1992), Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge (1993-1998) and was Director of Conservation and Science at the
Zoological Society of San Diego in the USA (1999- 2005). He is currently a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. Alan Dixson has authored, or co-authored, more than 140 papers and books.